Hakobyan (, ) is an Armenian surname with the meaning "son of Hakob" (Armenian for Jacob). This surname has multitudes of transliterations into Latin alphabet, including Acopian, Acopyan, Agopian, Agopyan, Akobian, Akobyan, Akopyan, Hagopian, Hagopyan, Hakobian, and others. Similar Russified surname: Akopov. Variants: Hakobyants, Hagopiantz (, ) (with similar variations of rendering in Latin alphabet). The surname may refer to: A Acopian Sarkis Acopian (1926–2007), Armenian-American inventor, industrialist, environmentalist Agopian Krikor Agopian, Lebanese-Canadian painter Ştefan Agopian, Romanian writer Agopyan Simon Agopyan (1857-1921), Ottoman Armenian landscape and portrait painter Vahan Agopyan, Turkish-born Armenian-Brazilian engineer and rector of the University of São Paulo Akobian Varuzhan Akobian, Armenian-American chess Grandmaster Akopian Alex Akopian, Armenian entrepreneur Arthur Akopian, Soviet Armenian gymnast and coach (also Artur Akopian, Arthur Akopyan, Arthur Akopian Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Russian pianist of Armenian descent Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess Grandmaster Akopyan Amayak Akopyan (born 1956), Soviet and Russian Armenian illusionist, actor, circus artist Arkadi Akopyan, Russian Armenian football player Armen Akopyan, Ukrainian Armenian football player Karen Akopyan, Russian Armenian football player Olena Akopyan (born 1969), Ukrainian Armenian Paralympic swimmer Olga Akopyan (born 1985), Russian handball player Setrak Akopyan (born 1999), Russian Armenian football player Stepan Yegorovich Akopyan, Prime Minister of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1937) Akopyants Andrey Akopyants, Uzbekistani football player of Armenian descent H Hagopian Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927–2008), American art historian Clara Hagopian, maiden name of the (adopting) mother of Steve Jobs Dean Hagopian, Armenian-Canadian actor, radio personality and musician, voice actor and record producer Frances Hagopian, political scientist. Hagop Der Hagopian (1884–1983), birth name of Shahan Natalie (1884–1983), an Armenian activist and principal organizer of Operation Nemesis, a campaign of revenge against officials of the former Ottoman Empire who instigated the Armenian Genocide during World War I. He is also a writer and a thinker Hagop Hagopian (militant), nom de guerre of Harutiun Takoshian, an Armenian military commander and guerilla, leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) Harold Hagopian, Armenian-American violinist, entrepreneur, record producer and founder of Traditional Crossroads world music record label J. Michael Hagopian (1913–2010), Armenian-born American filmmaker Richard Hagopian (born 1937), Armenian-American oud player and a traditional Armenian musician Robert Hagopian (1911-1995), Armenian-American attorney, government official, and politician Seta Hagopian, or Seta Agobian, Iraqi Armenian singer V. H. Hagopian (died 1916), Ottoman Armenian author and professor of Ottoman Turkish and Persian in Anatolia College Yenovk Der Hagopian (1900–1966), American-Armenian artist,